Massive political data leak in Malta

After a massive leak of the voter’s list showing the voting preferences, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of a majority of the Maltese population, noyb.eu will assist the Daphne Foundation and Repubblika in their class action and file complaints about the data breach in various EU Member States. Massive privacy violations of voters’ data. At the end of March 2020, independent Maltese media reported that a database containing 337,384 records of Maltese voters’ personal information had been freely accessible online for at least a year. The data did not only include the fields available in the published electoral register but also included mobile and fixed telephone numbers, dates of birth, polling booth and polling box numbers, and a numerical identifier indicating an individual’s political affiliation. How could this happen? Maltese voters are enrolled in the Maltese electoral register, which is maintained by the Electoral Commission – a body set up by the Maltese Constitutio